The Kuban Holding Courier
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Kuban Holding
Matvey Smirnov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Arshak Petrosyan falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Grigory Kalinichev joins the Kuban Holding first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Grigory Kalinichev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Yefim Myasnikov joins the Kuban Holding first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yefim Myasnikov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
Pavel Gritsun already looking beyond Kuban Holding
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
Market12 Oct 2026
A long bet from Kuban Holding on Pavel Gritsun
He is 20, and nobody at Kuban Holding signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Kuban Holding keep their word to Mark Polushin
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Mark Polushin has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kuban Holding will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Eduard Alexandrov's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
In brief
- Squad Somebody is after Ivan Litvenok’s shirt
- The dugout Vadim Govor knocks on the manager's door
- Squad The training reports on Yegor Vedernikov are not good